Peter Tsou is a principal science staff member at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology, where he has worked for the past 34 years.
Dr. Tsou's area of focus is utilizing aerogel for space exploration.
Dr. Tsou is a Principal Investigator (PI) for a number of Shuttle and Mir missions, and is responsible for inventing the technique of intact capture of hypervelocity particles. In addition, his work revolution...
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Peter Tsou is a principal science staff member at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology, where he has worked for the past 34 years.
Dr. Tsou's area of focus is utilizing aerogel for space exploration.
Dr. Tsou is a Principal Investigator (PI) for a number of Shuttle and Mir missions, and is responsible for inventing the technique of intact capture of hypervelocity particles. In addition, his work revolutionized the use of silica aerogel for space missions. He is most famous for his work involving the capture and return of comet particles via NASA's STARDUST mission, to which Dr. Tsou served as deputy PI.
Dr. Tsou was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned both his B.S. (1965) and M.S. (1966) in Electrical Engineering. He received his PhD in Large Scale Engineering Systems from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1972.
Since 1974, Dr. Tsou has worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, located in Pasadena,...
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